There was a writing system it is just not how you would think of it in the western sense. Zulu people used beadwork as a form of communication, that is very intricate detailing a lot of things. There is detailed ethnographic work by the incoming english. It was a variant of a common form of communication in southern africa
I remember seeing a documentary on ancient Zimbabwe manybyears ago. The narrator said "no one knows who built this". How about the people who live there?
@@cunisrufus6690 then why is it that the punu have the same totem from Zimbabwe? And Mwene Mutapa in which Mwene is a title used by kings of Kongo Kingdom. Mwene Kongo or Mani Kongo.
Former Martian it’s actually Karanga with R not L, although r and l are interchangeable in various Southern and eastern African languages, the Shona technically do not have L in their language although modern words now accommodate this.
Ndebele house paintings can be read the shapes and symbols tell stories and clan praises, this is passed from Mother to child, and the females would usually be the writers, Esther Mahlangu is a popular artist that uses this form
Exactly, and those shapes are not to far off the shapes in the Zulu beadwork. But distance has changed our languages a bit. After all Ndebele, Zulu, Swati, Xhosa, Bhaca, Gcaleka, Mfengu, Mpondo, Mpondomise, Hlubi, Phuti, and Thembu peoples are all children of the same father and language.
it's called Ditema/ Litema.the Ndebele learned it from the Batswana on their arrival in the Transvaal from Zululand. It's associated with the Ndebele because they refused to let go of the essence of their Africanness, unlike most Batswana who were quick to embrace Christianity after being the second group to lose most of their lands (After the Khoikhoi). The artform is still alive in many rural areas of Botswana, North West, Free State and Lesotho, displayed in public but its meanings shrouded in secrecy.
I visited Great Zimbabwe in February this year. One of the best trips I have ever made. Colonizers looted so much gold and artifacts from the site and destroyed so much in the process. They had the audacity to claim the indigenous people couldn’t have built the monument. Wouldn’t be surprised if they intentionally destroyed any evidence that the Shona had some writing system prior colonialism.
I don't know that anyone was intentionally trying to destroy archeological artifacts from great Zimbabwe. It was abandoned when Europeans first came across it. What was notable was that there is no parallel of the architecture from before or after great Zimbabwe in that area. Therefore speculation was that it was built by a new colonizing civilisation, possibly phoenician or Egyptian. I dont know that that has been confirmed.
@@mikhem1962 You are quite uninformed. 1. Even though Great Zimbabwe had not a large population when Europeans where taken there by the natives, there where still Karanga people living within the city. The populations living there where displaced during colonialism. 2. Similar ruins to Great Zimbabwe are found all over Zimbabwe, some parts of Mozambique and South Africa. Search Khami, Danongombe, Manyikeni, Naletale or Mapungupwe, to give a few. 3. There is absolutely no evidence that Phoenicians, Egyptians or any other foreign civilization built these structures. The oldest artifacts founds are carbon dated to be of around the 10th century and are identified to be Shona. The type of architecture does not correspond to any of the proposed foreign civilization and is specifically unique, with no straight borders, for example. There is also no written account of these ruins from any literate civilization before the Portuguese, in the 15th century. The technology used to build the structure and maintain the society correspond to a Late Iron Age. The Shona also continued with the same rock wall building tradition way into the 19th century, when British colonists where around, and continue to this day. Research Rozvi, Butua and Torwa states, which continued the tradition throught the 16, 17, 18 and 19 centuries.
@@alejandropascual5535 , thank you, plenty of interesting reading. In my defence I did say that I wasn’t sure it had been confirmed. I was taught at school in the 70s (in Zimbabwe) that the origin was unknown. There is a lot of poorly researched history of Africa.
@@mikhem1962 the Shona were still occupied in the enclosure when the british first arrived as traders before they conquered the region... and of course you were taught history to down play the Shona and their contribution to civilization. You must know one thing about your ancestors... You cannot praise someone you intend to exploit. Shonas do practice stone masonry even today.
@Renda Inteligente since my reply a few years ago I have been corrected, there is in fact a number of buildings constructed in a similar way in that area, great Zimbabwe is just the largest.
Wypipo don't hate you bro, wrll maybe some. Most just want y'all to stop doing like half the k1llings which you should too since that's mostly B on B. Also might help if you wasn't k1lling dem 2x as much as they k1lling you JS
I'll give you a lil thought experiment, walk around yte neighborhood, what's gonna happen to ya? Send a yte dude not looking to cop to the blk neighborhood, what's gonna happen to him? Be honest
That was most of the world. Racist 1900 academics discarded Africa and much of the Americas on purpose. The negation of Andean Topacu is an example. In Southeast Asia they tried to do the same but the Chinese, Soviets and Japanese didn't allow this so it was just not talked about extensively. The second paragraph gives a hint to what the Former second world may have in their libraries.
You forgot to mention the great Sun Dial/Calender found near the Tungela river in South Africa. It has inscriptions explaining the meaning of each time cycle of the sun and moon and inscriptions of what is believed to be brief descriptions of every day of the year. This stone calender pre dates Stone Henge by 1,000 years.
@@I_am_Diogenes I dont know. I looked up and found several ways of doing this such as mineral formation, but I dont know what method was used on this calender. Hey, maybe they looked at the calender !
Just want to thank you for your channel. As a middle-aged white american, I am on a quest to learn the true histories that our systemically racists schooling failed to teach. I am appalled at the lack of, or misinformation of African culture and history. This channel is helping me o become more informed. Thank you!
In the province of Mpumalanga in S.A. There’s exists a calendar made of stone almost identical to the one found in nabta playa. It also lies on the same longitudinal line. Coincidence? Credo Mutwa and David Icke had a documentary years ago covering this ‘new’ discovery.
No matter what you think of David Icke (I don't even know who he is) the structures are real and stand to this day. They're not just stone structures like Stonehenge,but nearby theres also remains of stone built village/town and stone terraces,showing advanced agriculture. Theres actually a professor from Wits University who wrote a book about these structures. You might wanna google
The ruins of the oldest civilization is in South Africa. Also the oldest calendar is in South Africa called the Adam's Calendar. Even more you can find the oldest depiction of the Ankh and Heru. Math also originated in South Africa, the Labemba.
Yes lets remember that borders are recent Mapungubwe and a lot stone structures in Mozambique, northern parts of South Africa, a few in Botswana are a part of Great Zimbabwe Dzimbadzemabwe
That's a lot of nonsense invented by people who want to believe space aliens founded human civilization. Those ruins and calendar are more like 500 years old.
I remember when my mom use to say “ that she’ll knock me to Timbuktu” now I know the meaning of the saying now, that’s where all the worlds knowledge is!
@AXEL The next Stan Lee At least you actually learnt about that, especially that early. My own family was part of Mapungubwe and I didn't discover it until I searched the internet about it in my 30s!
Surely there's a lot of history you don't know. Unfortunately, without a written record there will never be anything of substance that will fill that void. Simply making up your own history will not fill that void either. Which has become the most recent effort in discovering African history.
The Boer colonisers and their Rhodesian government suppressed all this information. I even watched a documentary where they were acting like they had no clue who built the ruins of great Zimbabwe, like it wasn’t the Shona tribes.
Greco/Romans and the early Europeans that visited Africa were more truthful and honest about what they saw. In my opinion, these guys weren’t weak minded. They respected others and recorded their experience with all honesty. This is in contrast to many European descent today; their main goal is to distort or blemish whatever doesn’t promote white supremacy. It is sad that we still have to go all out to prove the relationship between Egypt and other parts of Africa, when all evidence proves that the ancient Egyptians were core and indigenous Africans, (all descendants of Ham). This effort we put, shows how deep the deception of Eurocentrics regarding the achievements of Kemet (the land of black people), or black people is. This deception made waves through lies, blemishing and distortion of facts (archeological, historical, scientific, logic). It’s a honor having you undo these lies by unveiling the truth. Our history should be written and should be told by us. You’re doing a great job. Every true and indigenous African should support this channel. Thumbs up brother.
Mari Jata it’s a modern sickness. The more one feels weak and inferior, the more they promote racist ideologies. Hate comes from either wrong doing or envy, in this case it is envy and it bred and breeds racism. Yes Greek historians exlusively said ancient Egyptians were black, had wooly hair, had thick lips, and originated from Ethiopia (ie Africa interior). Even the Bible said Mizraim (Egypt) was a son of Ham.
Europeans never had a “weak mindset” or did what they did out of fear of you. Its pretty simple really. Europeans dominated the entire globe by the 19th century. Of course they are gonna develop a superiority complex. Everybody has the same mindset. Its ironic because you try to take white superemacy and twist it around to support black supremacy.
Thanks, I love it when new details of writing come up around the world. Great quote you found from the Portuguese explorer - I can’t get enough of the imagery & how in a few short sentences he helps outsiders understand the power/wealth/sumptuousness of the kingdom.
Indeed, more details are needed to truly understand the history in this part of Africa. The same goes for other regions as well. We all need to get involved! Thanks my brother for the knowledge✊🏿✊🏿
Isn't one big reason Egypt has been associated more with the Mediterranean and middle east is because the Egyptians had more contacts with those areas? The ancient Egyptians aren't known to have had any known contacts with people south of Egypt beyond the Nubian peoples. I haven't seen no evidence of the Egyptians having had contacts with west,central and southern Africans.
CrowdPleeza my great grand father has family in South Egypt. They look like your classic “African”. Just cos y’all normalize Africans as looking a certain way, doesn’t mean we are the most diverse group on earth in terms of phenotypes.
Dude thank you for doing these informative videos, knowledge is power and you are helping to empower our people, I am going to let my baby girls watch these videos when they get older, please keep doing what you are doing
I am a Shona person,very proud of our Ancient History that had been whitewashed by Colonizers. They tried disputing the fact that it was Shona people who built the Great Enclosure. They claimed David Livingstone discovered Victoria Falls,yet it was Locals who took him to the location. Thank God the veil is coming off and the truth is out.I love this channel.
Exactly, we know our ancestors built the great stone enclosures spread around Southern Africa. Shona’s were well known for creating intricate things in Stone and gold from buildings, sculptures, jewellery etc before all this colonisation drama started. Even today there is still a remnant of this craft left. Please don’t believe the constant stream of disinformation promoted by those who want to confuse us or hate us..
Seeing how most of us watch this on our phones, displaying original document texts in a much larger font would be really useful. I mention this because I have seen the tiny text on your other videos as well. Thank you.
@Daughter of Yah Well said. So called South Africa, is The biblical Israel. All the places from the Torah are still being called by the same name. For example, Bethel, Elim, Bethlehem, Pniel, etc.
@@andrewmclaughlin696 Ignorance. Why do you repeat nonsense that was invented by European racists in order to justify enslaving black people? Every human on the planet originally came from Africa, that's where the human species evolved.
@Liam Riley the movement is about the lives of black people being killed for no reason what so ever. They do matter if all lives matter. Where is your findings to prove that which you say?
@@ronjayrose9706 Definition of "race": a group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an ethnic group. (Source: Oxford dictionary)Don't be so quick to jump on other people's comments to find something to criticize. That's not the point of my comment.
It was common practice for Europeans to destroy artifacts throughout Africa during their presence on the continent. In Egypt they would grind up mummies and make paint or medicines. They would deface statues and things they thought were primitive. Many cities and artifacts were destroyed or groups wiped out with the European presence.
Don't do that don't give me hope , because I will be extremely sad if the history of those grand artifacts were actually destroyed for good and we are none the wiser
Also writing can completely disappear if it's recorded down on a medium that doesn't preserve well or at the very least remove most of the context of most of the text.
Good video king! When you expand please include the Odu's and the Ifa religion: how it evolves and is modernized like software updates, how poetry and rhythm is used as well to enter trance.
Southern Africa is the source of ancient kush and Egyptian culture, nguni culture to be specific. Hieroglyphics are mainly two languages spoken by nguni from southern africa to great laked to Sudan and Egypt are:Swahili and Nguni (xhosa, Zulu, ndebele, swati, etc). The Orion belt starts from south africa to egyptian. The nguni people speak ancient egyptian ti this day... Our ancestor came from Egypt
Our history is older than the Egyptian one we've got older pyramids than the Egyptian onse so, we are the authors of civilisation 75,000 year old pyramids
Central Africa and Gahan/Mali Empire had their own (not Arabic) than Kanem had their derivative using arab script, in the east Swahili had their own language written on stone before arabic, though mostly upper class like most of the world in those times used it. Berbes had Tiffnagh, may have spelled it wrong, as well. Nubia region also had 3 writing, a proto-hieroglyphic style language that was actually older but not as completely as the Egyptian one that came later, and the southern kingdoms in the Nubia region, below Kush, had their own writing, while Kush itself has the Meroitic script you mentioned. Bagrumi later on also had it's own derivative script. Kingdom of Kongo had a simplfied script when the Portuguese came, the conversion to European Christianity (though not keeping whit jesus and changing him) whic was just named after their language Kikongo, was lost because they made a NEW Kikongo language based off portugese, so outside some tablets there's nothing left of that one.
Also, please take a look at the book, "The Lost Book of Enki" by Zecharia Sitchin. His complete "Earth Chronicles" might also be something you would find extremely interesting.
Timbuktu had long been a center of learning, it contained a library of ancient scrolls and texts. Unesco was working to preserve these scrolls along with experts from Africa .They contained the written records of Africa when these kingdoms were active. Mali was attacked in 2009 and the library was burned. It is not known how much of the material is left.
Nsibidi, which is correctly written as Nshi-biri (Meaning written by Nshi) is an Ancient eastern Nigeria writing of the Igbos, arguably the first writing in the world, as Igbo is the first and oldest language in the world. Nshi or Enshi is the name of the first people, the ancients Immortals of the Igbos, who never died, the first people of humanity, the pure seeds and children of Light.
@pokezee king-wolf Hope, wish, maybe - all amount to ignorance. First start with this international award winning book, by late Professor Catherine Acholonu, "They Lived Before Adam" . We deal with facts not opinions and arrogant ignorance. Research, educate yourself on the subject, before making nonfactual comments. Thanks
@love ps3 Start with the Internationally acclaimed award winning book based on 20 years research called " They Lived Before Adam" by Prof Catherine Acholonu.
The striking thing is how ignorant people could so casually destroy other people's things, then turn around and called the same people ignorant, backward etc.
Home team could you please do a video lecture on the ethnographic and phylogenetic history of ancient Egypt from the pre-dynastic to the late kingdoms. From this day forward you will have my support as well as many others on your Patreon. Furthermore, may I suggest only a sample or none of it should be on RUclips due to the time it takes to conduct such research and editing.
There is no such thing as white african. Just because you are born does not make you one of us so long as your ancestors were the prick in our behind and came by boat to our continent, you are European born in Africa thats all. Just like Africans born in Europe are still Africans by heritage and ethnicity... they are NOT black Europeans.
Thank you for your channel. Another deeply rich, beautiful and insightful book which covers ancient Southern African mythology and history is Indaba My Children by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa.
Hello, i am a french guy who looks to break away from my country's monolingualism. In my language list i recently added Sesotho, as i really like the culture of that people from the little i already knew. I seeked for a good chanel to learn about African history other than the colonial annoying history. Don't get me wrong, colonialism is a terrible event that needs to be learnt. However i always wanted to learn history of the African continent between the various people in Africa instead of just Europe colonising all over the place. I find it fascinating! And when i found your well documented channel that shows how rich the history of Africa is, i was really happy! So keep doing what you are doing. This is all fascinating!
In most ancient cultures, writing and other forms of formal education were primarily reserved for elite government and religious leaders. And, the history of African invasion, conquest and colonization is responsible for the disappearance, distortion and suppression of ancient African scripts.
There are similarities between San rock art & hieroglyphics. I wonder if the two groups ever came into contact. San rock art is there in Zimbabwe as well as hieroglyphics writing, very interesting
@@troyhenderson8070 yes its true shona language has a lot of ancient hebrew references and even today some words are still the same google shona similarites semitic
I spent almost $300 on Afrikan Alphabets by Saki Mafundikwa(from Zimbabwe). No one can tell me shit about Afrikan Writing because i dug into My own Tribe in East Afrika and what do you know...we had a writing system albeit exclusive to Priest, Medicine men and Metallurgists.
this is one great audio and video presentation regarding the hidden written languages that existed in ancient Africa. I would like to know if any library that has been discovered in these kingdoms to give us a picture of how these civilizations came and disappeared.
6:42 TL:DR the pic here is of a Great Zimbabwe artefact from 12-1500s clearly showing astrological symbols, with names & meanings largely known to this day. the very picture in the background is of the (google "Great Zimbabwe Astrology Bowl"/Zodiac bowl) a wooden bowl from the 12-15th century found at Great Zimbabwe. On it can be found writing, by writing i mean uniform Shona Astrological symbols who's meaning is still well known among traditionalists to this day. Example the "ndoro" symbol shown at the 11O-clock position. Along with other characters/glyphs on this bowl *(photographical/primary evidence)* used with an agreed-upon meaning at least in the field of astrology. We also have even more well known (Google "Hakata Oracle bones") Oracle bones (a mideival African analogue to dice 🎲), these come with 8 symbols, also having a uniform, agreed upon meeting throughout all traditional shona-speaking areas. (Chequered symbol for male spirit, X-shaped ingot symbol for female spirit. Each of these standardised from before colonialism). And moving on to semasiographic writing (not attached to words but concepts) you have the famous Herringbone and zig-zag pattern at great Zimbabwe meaning succession of kings and the importance of the female sex respectively) (the bowl survives to this day) i think all the evidence he provides was secondary (the de barros statement) or even tertiary/speculative (the Egyptian papyrus found (notably by a boer hunter who were rare in Rhodesia (common in South Africa) at a time when thst very Regime was pushing the idea that Great Zimbabwe couldn't have been built by Africans, im open to the evidence as long as the papyri can be produced, they obviously haven't and that's i think why "no-one hesrd of the published article". )
Just a happy side comment: according to the Wikipedia article on Nsibidi, Nsibidi was used as the inspiration for Wakandan in Black Panther. Thank you for this video.
a lot of africans don’t tell they’re history. i heard somalis had a written system but no one can decipher it, also in northern somali there are signs of ge’ez writing on old burial and sights but people aren’t interested and focused on our ‘pagan’ history.
The written word largely didn't exist in the vast majority of Africa south of the Congo. But I don't see why this is seen as a negative factor. Sub-Congoan Africa has a rich oral tradition and they didn't have any need for the written word.
@@sefp Actually that is a myth. Most Europeans could read, write, and do math. Just because most of the universities closed after the fall of the Roman empire that did not mean that parents stopped teaching their kids ! Also, town squares usually had an area where important documents, such as political or religious decrees, were "posted" for the general public to read.
@@nickcellini5609 We know for a fact that Sub-Roman Britain's literacy died out within a decade. There were actual attempts by the priesthood and nobility to destroy literacy among the lower classes to uphold their power.
There was a writing system it is just not how you would think of it in the western sense. Zulu people used beadwork as a form of communication, that is very intricate detailing a lot of things. There is detailed ethnographic work by the incoming english. It was a variant of a common form of communication in southern africa
Sounds similar to the incan form of communication which used knots
Zulu love letters
@@vivirilityana7979 yes Zulu love letter you are sport on. I also learned that it goes way beyond that.
Yep I also suspect the intricate Ndebele ‘artwork’ for a lack of a better word is also a lost language system?
i love this thread
I remember seeing a documentary on ancient Zimbabwe manybyears ago. The narrator said "no one knows who built this". How about the people who live there?
They are called Vakalanga or Kalanga.
@@vtecnegro85 nope
@@cunisrufus6690 then why is it that the punu have the same totem from Zimbabwe? And Mwene Mutapa in which Mwene is a title used by kings of Kongo Kingdom. Mwene Kongo or Mani Kongo.
@@vtecnegro85 we call that Munhu Mutapa
Former Martian it’s actually Karanga with R not L, although r and l are interchangeable in various Southern and eastern African languages, the Shona technically do not have L in their language although modern words now accommodate this.
Ndebele house paintings can be read the shapes and symbols tell stories and clan praises, this is passed from Mother to child, and the females would usually be the writers, Esther Mahlangu is a popular artist that uses this form
That’s what I thought when I saw the Ndebele paintings.
you serious!?! Been living in SA all my life and I'm only finding this out now? Man, I need to travel around this country and continent a lot more.
Exactly, and those shapes are not to far off the shapes in the Zulu beadwork. But distance has changed our languages a bit. After all Ndebele, Zulu, Swati, Xhosa, Bhaca, Gcaleka, Mfengu, Mpondo, Mpondomise, Hlubi, Phuti, and Thembu peoples are all children of the same father and language.
it's called Ditema/ Litema.the Ndebele learned it from the Batswana on their arrival in the Transvaal from Zululand. It's associated with the Ndebele because they refused to let go of the essence of their Africanness, unlike most Batswana who were quick to embrace Christianity after being the second group to lose most of their lands (After the Khoikhoi). The artform is still alive in many rural areas of Botswana, North West, Free State and Lesotho, displayed in public but its meanings shrouded in secrecy.
@@aobakwematshidiso5438 wait i thought ditema was Zulu or can it be used by all of us?
I visited Great Zimbabwe in February this year. One of the best trips I have ever made. Colonizers looted so much gold and artifacts from the site and destroyed so much in the process. They had the audacity to claim the indigenous people couldn’t have built the monument. Wouldn’t be surprised if they intentionally destroyed any evidence that the Shona had some writing system prior colonialism.
I don't know that anyone was intentionally trying to destroy archeological artifacts from great Zimbabwe. It was abandoned when Europeans first came across it. What was notable was that there is no parallel of the architecture from before or after great Zimbabwe in that area. Therefore speculation was that it was built by a new colonizing civilisation, possibly phoenician or Egyptian. I dont know that that has been confirmed.
@@mikhem1962 You are quite uninformed.
1. Even though Great Zimbabwe had not a large population when Europeans where taken there by the natives, there where still Karanga people living within the city. The populations living there where displaced during colonialism.
2. Similar ruins to Great Zimbabwe are found all over Zimbabwe, some parts of Mozambique and South Africa. Search Khami, Danongombe, Manyikeni, Naletale or Mapungupwe, to give a few.
3. There is absolutely no evidence that Phoenicians, Egyptians or any other foreign civilization built these structures. The oldest artifacts founds are carbon dated to be of around the 10th century and are identified to be Shona. The type of architecture does not correspond to any of the proposed foreign civilization and is specifically unique, with no straight borders, for example. There is also no written account of these ruins from any literate civilization before the Portuguese, in the 15th century. The technology used to build the structure and maintain the society correspond to a Late Iron Age. The Shona also continued with the same rock wall building tradition way into the 19th century, when British colonists where around, and continue to this day. Research Rozvi, Butua and Torwa states, which continued the tradition throught the 16, 17, 18 and 19 centuries.
@@alejandropascual5535 , thank you, plenty of interesting reading. In my defence I did say that I wasn’t sure it had been confirmed. I was taught at school in the 70s (in Zimbabwe) that the origin was unknown. There is a lot of poorly researched history of Africa.
@@mikhem1962 the Shona were still occupied in the enclosure when the british first arrived as traders before they conquered the region... and of course you were taught history to down play the Shona and their contribution to civilization. You must know one thing about your ancestors... You cannot praise someone you intend to exploit. Shonas do practice stone masonry even today.
@Renda Inteligente since my reply a few years ago I have been corrected, there is in fact a number of buildings constructed in a similar way in that area, great Zimbabwe is just the largest.
Thank you for bringing Africa history to African people🇹🇹
Very informative. We must tell our own story and stop letting the people who hate our guts tell our story.
Exactly
Truth!
1million thumbs up 👍👍👍👍
Wypipo don't hate you bro, wrll maybe some. Most just want y'all to stop doing like half the k1llings which you should too since that's mostly B on B. Also might help if you wasn't k1lling dem 2x as much as they k1lling you JS
I'll give you a lil thought experiment, walk around yte neighborhood, what's gonna happen to ya? Send a yte dude not looking to cop to the blk neighborhood, what's gonna happen to him? Be honest
Africans had very ingenious diverse ways of communication and writing scripts.
@AutoDriver4000 oh look, a punk white boy anime lover obsessed with us
@AutoDriver4000 YES THEY HAVE
AutoDriver4000 proof or just racism?
That was most of the world. Racist 1900 academics discarded Africa and much of the Americas on purpose.
The negation of Andean Topacu is an example.
In Southeast Asia they tried to do the same but the Chinese, Soviets and Japanese didn't allow this so it was just not talked about extensively.
The second paragraph gives a hint to what the Former second world may have in their libraries.
Imagine the possibilities if their was uninterrupted progress into the 21st century. Damn smh
The remnants of Khemet show what happens when Afrikan Progress is uninterrupted.
Great Zimbabwe would've dominated southern Africa and probably beat the Dutch and Portuguese
If they actually stopped getting conquered or obliterated or subjugated in the first place
@@ronjayrose9706 wishful thinking.
@@jeremyacton4569 This is a space for african greatness/worldview he's not far fetched.
You forgot to mention the great Sun Dial/Calender found near the Tungela river in South Africa. It has inscriptions explaining the meaning of each time cycle of the sun and moon and inscriptions of what is believed to be brief descriptions of every day of the year. This stone calender pre dates Stone Henge by 1,000 years.
How did they date it since stone can not be dated ?
@@I_am_Diogenes I dont know. I looked up and found several ways of doing this such as mineral formation, but I dont know what method was used on this calender. Hey, maybe they looked at the calender !
I tried looking it up but couldn’t find anything, would you mind sending a link?
Just want to thank you for your channel. As a middle-aged white american, I am on a quest to learn the true histories that our systemically racists schooling failed to teach. I am appalled at the lack of, or misinformation of African culture and history. This channel is helping me o become more informed. Thank you!
In the province of Mpumalanga in S.A. There’s exists a calendar made of stone almost identical to the one found in nabta playa. It also lies on the same longitudinal line. Coincidence? Credo Mutwa and David Icke had a documentary years ago covering this ‘new’ discovery.
Where in mpumalanga, i might visit?
David Icke the lizard people guy?
No matter what you think of David Icke (I don't even know who he is) the structures are real and stand to this day. They're not just stone structures like Stonehenge,but nearby theres also remains of stone built village/town and stone terraces,showing advanced agriculture. Theres actually a professor from Wits University who wrote a book about these structures. You might wanna google
@@awesomewilsononline225 It is near Waterval Boven.
@@thulimalebane6911 that dude claimed it was built by aliens as well
The ruins of the oldest civilization is in South Africa. Also the oldest calendar is in South Africa called the Adam's Calendar. Even more you can find the oldest depiction of the Ankh and Heru. Math also originated in South Africa, the Labemba.
Yes lets remember that borders are recent Mapungubwe and a lot stone structures in Mozambique, northern parts of South Africa, a few in Botswana are a part of Great Zimbabwe Dzimbadzemabwe
@ Wow
This is true.
It is from Southern Afrika that Astronomy and Math transferred to the Nile River Valley.
@Daughter of Yah HalleluYAH
That's a lot of nonsense invented by people who want to believe space aliens founded human civilization. Those ruins and calendar are more like 500 years old.
I remember when my mom use to say “ that she’ll knock me to Timbuktu” now I know the meaning of the saying now, that’s where all the worlds knowledge is!
Most content on RUclips is a distraction. This is engaging content delivered with oratory skills to match. Keep up the good work✊🏿
J H I don't agree yt gives u what u want
I'm Zimbabwean and I didn't even know this. How much of our history don't we know? 🤔
Is it true that many school books on African history comes from European countries? They are probably telling their own history instead of yours.
You'd be shocked! I'm literally learning about it at my big age and I'm floored every time!
@AXEL The next Stan Lee At least you actually learnt about that, especially that early. My own family was part of Mapungubwe and I didn't discover it until I searched the internet about it in my 30s!
Surely there's a lot of history you don't know. Unfortunately, without a written record there will never be anything of substance that will fill that void. Simply making up your own history will not fill that void either. Which has become the most recent effort in discovering African history.
The Boer colonisers and their Rhodesian government suppressed all this information. I even watched a documentary where they were acting like they had no clue who built the ruins of great Zimbabwe, like it wasn’t the Shona tribes.
I just wanted to tell you that I teach my children what you share... Powerful !!
Can you do some videos about the Caribbean like Barbados and Guyana ?
Greco/Romans and the early Europeans that visited Africa were more truthful and honest about what they saw. In my opinion, these guys weren’t weak minded. They respected others and recorded their experience with all honesty. This is in contrast to many European descent today; their main goal is to distort or blemish whatever doesn’t promote white supremacy. It is sad that we still have to go all out to prove the relationship between Egypt and other parts of Africa, when all evidence proves that the ancient Egyptians were core and indigenous Africans, (all descendants of Ham). This effort we put, shows how deep the deception of Eurocentrics regarding the achievements of Kemet (the land of black people), or black people is. This deception made waves through lies, blemishing and distortion of facts (archeological, historical, scientific, logic). It’s a honor having you undo these lies by unveiling the truth. Our history should be written and should be told by us. You’re doing a great job. Every true and indigenous African should support this channel. Thumbs up brother.
Mari Jata it’s a modern sickness. The more one feels weak and inferior, the more they promote racist ideologies. Hate comes from either wrong doing or envy, in this case it is envy and it bred and breeds racism. Yes Greek historians exlusively said ancient Egyptians were black, had wooly hair, had thick lips, and originated from Ethiopia (ie Africa interior). Even the Bible said Mizraim (Egypt) was a son of Ham.
Shem was light skin to dark skin.
Who destroyed the library in Alexandria Egypt?
Indigo Sky they think we’re devils or animals lol
Europeans never had a “weak mindset” or did what they did out of fear of you. Its pretty simple really. Europeans dominated the entire globe by the 19th century. Of course they are gonna develop a superiority complex. Everybody has the same mindset. Its ironic because you try to take white superemacy and twist it around to support black supremacy.
You do such good work, young Brother and we appreciate your work.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thanks, I love it when new details of writing come up around the world. Great quote you found from the Portuguese explorer - I can’t get enough of the imagery & how in a few short sentences he helps outsiders understand the power/wealth/sumptuousness of the kingdom.
Indeed, more details are needed to truly understand the history in this part of Africa. The same goes for other regions as well. We all need to get involved! Thanks my brother for the knowledge✊🏿✊🏿
Why is it some people won't aknowledge that Egypt is in Africa 🤦🏾♀️🤣
🤔ok
Isn't one big reason Egypt has been associated more with the Mediterranean and middle east is because the Egyptians had more contacts with those areas?
The ancient Egyptians aren't known to have had any known contacts with people south of Egypt beyond the Nubian peoples.
I haven't seen no evidence of the Egyptians having had contacts with west,central and southern Africans.
@Eric 23 exactly my point.
CrowdPleeza my great grand father has family in South Egypt. They look like your classic “African”. Just cos y’all normalize Africans as looking a certain way, doesn’t mean we are the most diverse group on earth in terms of phenotypes.
CrowdPleeza you do know that there’s more pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt right..
The Ancient Egyptians never ever sperated themself from the rest of the Africans on the continent because they knew they were Africans
“Africa” was not in existence in ancient times
1219monique no continent was
@@1219monique what's your point
Africa was named after an European a couple of centuries ago which means Africa didn't exist at that time 😂🤣😁
What
The video is exquisite as usual. Question, do you plan to go to the continent and tell the stories from there?
I absolutely love your videos. Keep on lifting that veil! ✊
i also do like fairytales
So happy I finally found an accessible source for African history!!!!
Another fantastic video. Thank you very much for your hard work 💜
Dude thank you for doing these informative videos, knowledge is power and you are helping to empower our people, I am going to let my baby girls watch these videos when they get older, please keep doing what you are doing
I'm sharing ALL of this knowledge. Thank you, King!
Absolutely love this channel.
I am a Shona person,very proud of our Ancient History that had been whitewashed by Colonizers. They tried disputing the fact that it was Shona people who built the Great Enclosure. They claimed David Livingstone discovered Victoria Falls,yet it was Locals who took him to the location. Thank God the veil is coming off and the truth is out.I love this channel.
@Austine Mwago we call it Mapopoma
Exactly, we know our ancestors built the great stone enclosures spread around Southern Africa. Shona’s were well known for creating intricate things in Stone and gold from buildings, sculptures, jewellery etc before all this colonisation drama started. Even today there is still a remnant of this craft left. Please don’t believe the constant stream of disinformation promoted by those who want to confuse us or hate us..
Letting my daughter look at this
Still another superb video. Thanks again for your teaching and scholarship.
What I love about your channel is that u inform us that we did have civilization of our own and that Black history wasn't always so dark and dreary.
I absolutely love this channel as soon as I get some funds I’m supporting 🙏🏾🙏🏾🌿
Love your content. Thank you.
Seeing how most of us watch this on our phones, displaying original document texts in a much larger font would be really useful.
I mention this because I have seen the tiny text on your other videos as well.
Thank you.
I’m from South Africa. I’m so happy to be home where my ancestors were before they left to explore Europe and Asia.
That's a lie if your white your not from Africa your from the caucus mountain.
@@andrewmclaughlin696 lies.
@Daughter of Yah Well said. So called South Africa, is The biblical Israel. All the places from the Torah are still being called by the same name. For example, Bethel, Elim, Bethlehem, Pniel, etc.
@@andrewmclaughlin696 Ignorance. Why do you repeat nonsense that was invented by European racists in order to justify enslaving black people? Every human on the planet originally came from Africa, that's where the human species evolved.
Excellent work
Very useful and interesting video - unravelling Africa's rich history - love it
I'm South African and this just blew my freaking mind.
How did this blow your mind?
Where was the writing he was talking about?
Keep the history coming brother BLACK LIVES MATTERS LOVE IN THE HOUSE
@Liam Riley lol
ight jit
@Liam Riley the movement is about the lives of black people being killed for no reason what so ever. They do matter if all lives matter. Where is your findings to prove that which you say?
Black Lives Prosper
Liam Riley yet there was no #All lives matter until #Black lives matter
Got recommended this channel today, loving it and looking forward to more.
Please research and do episodes on the history of Oyo Empire, the origins of the Yoruba race and the era of the Ijebu Kingdom.
Yoruba isn't a race it's an ethnic group
@@ronjayrose9706 Definition of "race": a group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an ethnic group. (Source: Oxford dictionary)Don't be so quick to jump on other people's comments to find something to criticize. That's not the point of my comment.
@Mister No Name You might want to pick up a dictionary and find out for yourself.
@@ronjayrose9706 There is nothing like race, that was European fabrication to promote supremacy . So called white people are not all the same either.
@@lagosian123 to add on that, there was no 'white race' up until 1649 where it was created by the elites from Britain.
Thank you for another great segment..
I would love to have gone back in time to see the architect back then. Could we have a vid on the Dutch invading South Africa please?
They was no south Africa at the time. It was different kingdoms. Made up of mainly the Nguni people (Zulus and Xhoza) and the Tswana-Pedi-sotho people
kabzaify Xhosa***
kabzaify Nguni (Zulu, Swati, Xhosa, Ndebele)
@@WWrsa hi, me Motswana
@@WWrsa yes
So they found ancient artifacts and immediately destroyed them?
That sounds like a lie. Most likely they took them and still have them til this day!
They hve them and replacing for their own. That's history they cant cover up. #takingcreditofothers RICHhistory
Destroy & steal is european colonists' philosophy. Not new; exploit what's useful and disgard what does not serve your selfish goals.
It was common practice for Europeans to destroy artifacts throughout Africa during their presence on the continent. In Egypt they would grind up mummies and make paint or medicines. They would deface statues and things they thought were primitive. Many cities and artifacts were destroyed or groups wiped out with the European presence.
Buckingham palace in England houses thounds and thousands of Africas stolen artefacts and they are busy selling it one by one.
Don't do that don't give me hope , because I will be extremely sad if the history of those grand artifacts were actually destroyed for good and we are none the wiser
Also writing can completely disappear if it's recorded down on a medium that doesn't preserve well or at the very least remove most of the context of most of the text.
Great video bro. Its great learning about African history. I am glad you are putting this knowledge out there about Ancient Africa and its tribes.
Thank you so much for this information of things that I've never even known.👍👍👍👍🤔🤔🤔🤔☺☺☺☺.
Awesome video bro much love.
Good video king! When you expand please include the Odu's and the Ifa religion: how it evolves and is modernized like software updates, how poetry and rhythm is used as well to enter trance.
Very interesting stuff!
EXCELLENT TEACHING🔭🔭🔭✌🏾🚀
Consistantly interesting videos interesting topics well done
I haven't watched these in a while and the quality is amazing now? Wow
Southern Africa is the source of ancient kush and Egyptian culture, nguni culture to be specific. Hieroglyphics are mainly two languages spoken by nguni from southern africa to great laked to Sudan and Egypt are:Swahili and Nguni (xhosa, Zulu, ndebele, swati, etc). The Orion belt starts from south africa to egyptian. The nguni people speak ancient egyptian ti this day... Our ancestor came from Egypt
Our history is older than the Egyptian one we've got older pyramids than the Egyptian onse so, we are the authors of civilisation 75,000 year old pyramids
Great post king! Keep doing your thing 👌 💯
The Medu Neter, Nsibidi, the Vai Script, Ge’ez and the Meroetic Script; are there any others?
Central Africa and Gahan/Mali Empire had their own (not Arabic) than Kanem had their derivative using arab script, in the east Swahili had their own language written on stone before arabic, though mostly upper class like most of the world in those times used it. Berbes had Tiffnagh, may have spelled it wrong, as well. Nubia region also had 3 writing, a proto-hieroglyphic style language that was actually older but not as completely as the Egyptian one that came later, and the southern kingdoms in the Nubia region, below Kush, had their own writing, while Kush itself has the Meroitic script you mentioned. Bagrumi later on also had it's own derivative script. Kingdom of Kongo had a simplfied script when the Portuguese came, the conversion to European Christianity (though not keeping whit jesus and changing him) whic was just named after their language Kikongo, was lost because they made a NEW Kikongo language based off portugese, so outside some tablets there's nothing left of that one.
Adlam, Vai, Mandombe, isiBheqe Sohlamvu, N'ko, Mwangwego, Ǹdèbè...plenty plenty African scripts
Also, please take a look at the book, "The Lost Book of Enki" by Zecharia Sitchin. His complete "Earth Chronicles" might also be something you would find extremely interesting.
Sitchin is a fraud, none that is true
Thank you for telling our story ✊🏾
Timbuktu had long been a center of learning, it contained a library of ancient scrolls and texts. Unesco was working to preserve these scrolls along with experts from Africa .They contained the written records of Africa when these kingdoms were active. Mali was attacked in 2009 and the library was burned. It is not known how much of the material is left.
helpful videos keep on posting
Nsibidi, which is correctly written as Nshi-biri (Meaning written by Nshi) is an Ancient eastern Nigeria writing of the Igbos, arguably the first writing in the world, as Igbo is the first and oldest language in the world.
Nshi or Enshi is the name of the first people, the ancients Immortals of the Igbos, who never died, the first people of humanity, the pure seeds and children of Light.
Akwa Nshi is Batwa, thanks brother.
Evidence?
@pokezee king-wolf Hope, wish, maybe - all amount to ignorance. First start with this international award winning book, by late Professor Catherine Acholonu, "They Lived Before Adam" . We deal with facts not opinions and arrogant ignorance. Research, educate yourself on the subject, before making nonfactual comments. Thanks
@love ps3 Start with the Internationally acclaimed award winning book based on 20 years research called " They Lived Before Adam" by Prof Catherine Acholonu.
@@AI-mo6tx
He is the evidence! Enough?
The striking thing is how ignorant people could so casually destroy other people's things, then turn around and called the same people ignorant, backward etc.
great content. Keep up bruh
Egyptian hieroglyphs are African writing. And the "Nubians" had their own form as well. ❤
It’s funny, because Africans have far more indigenous written scripts than Europeans. English isn’t even a Indo-European script.
What evidence do you have to support this
What??
@Adrian Bradey greek and latin to start
@Adrian Bradey hmmm...still waiting on BD on the Indo-euro texts. Nothing yet...
@Adrian Bradey the phoenician writing system is very different from ancient Egyptian, it's closer to Babylon or Persia
Great work as always.💪🏽😎
Home team could you please do a video lecture on the ethnographic and phylogenetic history of ancient Egypt from the pre-dynastic to the late kingdoms. From this day forward you will have my support as well as many others on your Patreon. Furthermore, may I suggest only a sample or none of it should be on RUclips due to the time it takes to conduct such research and editing.
Liked and Subbed. Thank you brother.
You really empower s with this content, knowledge is wealth.
Very good channel man. I'm a white African from Ghana. You tell the African history in great detail.
😁🥰
There is no such thing as white african. Just because you are born does not make you one of us so long as your ancestors were the prick in our behind and came by boat to our continent, you are European born in Africa thats all. Just like Africans born in Europe are still Africans by heritage and ethnicity... they are NOT black Europeans.
Thank you for your channel. Another deeply rich, beautiful and insightful book which covers ancient Southern African mythology and history is Indaba My Children by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa.
Thank you for the information!
Hello, i am a french guy who looks to break away from my country's monolingualism. In my language list i recently added Sesotho, as i really like the culture of that people from the little i already knew. I seeked for a good chanel to learn about African history other than the colonial annoying history. Don't get me wrong, colonialism is a terrible event that needs to be learnt. However i always wanted to learn history of the African continent between the various people in Africa instead of just Europe colonising all over the place. I find it fascinating! And when i found your well documented channel that shows how rich the history of Africa is, i was really happy! So keep doing what you are doing. This is all fascinating!
Great video as always, Afrika my beginning Afrika my ending.
Zimbabwe roofs were not thatched but equally plastered
In most ancient cultures, writing and other forms of formal education were primarily reserved for elite government and religious leaders. And, the history of African invasion, conquest and colonization is responsible for the disappearance, distortion and suppression of ancient African scripts.
Keep tearing down the "veil of ignorance" put up by our downpressors. Great Work Brethren!!!
There are similarities between San rock art & hieroglyphics. I wonder if the two groups ever came into contact. San rock art is there in Zimbabwe as well as hieroglyphics writing, very interesting
Paleo Hebrew was an ancient African language that was written and spoken
Lies
TRUTH
@@nhnj7543 unlearned
Yahusha Yahuah
@@troyhenderson8070 yes its true shona language has a lot of ancient hebrew references and even today some words are still the same google shona similarites semitic
You need an award.
I spent almost $300 on Afrikan Alphabets by Saki Mafundikwa(from Zimbabwe). No one can tell me shit about Afrikan Writing because i dug into My own Tribe in East Afrika and what do you know...we had a writing system albeit exclusive to Priest, Medicine men and Metallurgists.
Still not convinced, where are these Hieroglyphic writings Zimbabwe today. I can't believe it until I can see it.
STFU🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for this wisdom
The intro on this video was God tier
We are going back to our roots, Africans as a whole, united Africa. Our history is being unearthed. Thanks to thus great informative documentary
this is one great audio and video presentation regarding the hidden written languages that existed in ancient Africa. I would like to know if any library that has been discovered in these kingdoms to give us a picture of how these civilizations came and disappeared.
Great content! I just wanna ask, is your page monetized? I'm planning to make slideshow videos with voiceover and I'm worried about monetization.
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TL:DR the pic here is of a Great Zimbabwe artefact from 12-1500s clearly showing astrological symbols, with names & meanings largely known to this day.
the very picture in the background is of the (google "Great Zimbabwe Astrology Bowl"/Zodiac bowl) a wooden bowl from the 12-15th century found at Great Zimbabwe. On it can be found writing, by writing i mean uniform Shona Astrological symbols who's meaning is still well known among traditionalists to this day. Example the "ndoro" symbol shown at the 11O-clock position. Along with other characters/glyphs on this bowl *(photographical/primary evidence)* used with an agreed-upon meaning at least in the field of astrology. We also have even more well known (Google "Hakata Oracle bones") Oracle bones (a mideival African analogue to dice 🎲), these come with 8 symbols, also having a uniform, agreed upon meeting throughout all traditional shona-speaking areas. (Chequered symbol for male spirit, X-shaped ingot symbol for female spirit. Each of these standardised from before colonialism). And moving on to semasiographic writing (not attached to words but concepts) you have the famous Herringbone and zig-zag pattern at great Zimbabwe meaning succession of kings and the importance of the female sex respectively)
(the bowl survives to this day) i think all the evidence he provides was secondary (the de barros statement) or even tertiary/speculative (the Egyptian papyrus found (notably by a boer hunter who were rare in Rhodesia (common in South Africa) at a time when thst very Regime was pushing the idea that Great Zimbabwe couldn't have been built by Africans, im open to the evidence as long as the papyri can be produced, they obviously haven't and that's i think why "no-one hesrd of the published article". )
Can you make list of documentaries and books you recommend on African history
Also Kingdom of mapungubwe in Southern africa
Just a happy side comment: according to the Wikipedia article on Nsibidi, Nsibidi was used as the inspiration for Wakandan in Black Panther. Thank you for this video.
Thank you!
Great Great Great I would love to heard these Ancient Afrocan Egyptian's script's
a lot of africans don’t tell they’re history. i heard somalis had a written system but no one can decipher it, also in northern somali there are signs of ge’ez writing on old burial and sights but people aren’t interested and focused on our ‘pagan’ history.
Thank you!!!❤
The written word largely didn't exist in the vast majority of Africa south of the Congo. But I don't see why this is seen as a negative factor. Sub-Congoan Africa has a rich oral tradition and they didn't have any need for the written word.
Remember European commoners didn’t know how to read or write apart from the elite and priests for a long time either.
@@sefp Actually that is a myth. Most Europeans could read, write, and do math. Just because most of the universities closed after the fall of the Roman empire that did not mean that parents stopped teaching their kids ! Also, town squares usually had an area where important documents, such as political or religious decrees, were "posted" for the general public to read.
Nick Cellini No he’s right, almost all commoners north of the Alps couldn’t read or write until the Renaissance
@@nickcellini5609 not true.
@@nickcellini5609 We know for a fact that Sub-Roman Britain's literacy died out within a decade. There were actual attempts by the priesthood and nobility to destroy literacy among the lower classes to uphold their power.
I want to see a video on the negative things written about the Zanj in the Middle East and Andalusia.
I *LOVE* this channel.
Is there another way I can donate besides Patreon, such as CashApp or PayPal? I don't use Patreon.
Many thanks 👍🏿💜